1882 LIBRARY OF CHOICE LITERATURE. William Blake, Mark Twain, George MacDonald, Thomas Jefferson, &c Biography English theologian Symon Patrick [1626-1707]

English theologian Symon Patrick [1626-1707] attempts to use the standard reformation era anti-semitic tropes and interpretations of the Old Testament and Gospels as a way of demonstrating the on-going hypocrisy of English Christians

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1882 LIBRARY OF CHOICE LITERATURE. William Blake, Mark Twain, George MacDonald, Thomas Jefferson, &c Biography English theologian Symon Patrick [1626-1707]A luxuriously presented fine binding example of The Library of Choice Literature, a new American Literary Canon compiled by the founder of the Library of Congress. This beautifully produced and illustrated collection drew together prose and poetry by authors spanning from ancient times through to the 1880s. The selections were made by two towering figures in the literary world. Ainsworth Spofford by this time had transformed the small reference